Show A COMEDY IN BUBBLES salt sal t lake I T was set all 11 afrig a few days ago over the report that oil had been discovered ds covered in he northern portion of the city somewhere in the vicinity of the warm springs strange things happen 0 once nce in a while and especially so in a mining and oil bearing country and cases can be cited where gold was discovered in city and mining camp streets while the crops of chickens have been found to contain gold nuggets as well as other othar bric a brac but no one ever dreamed that within the environments of salt lake on ground that ihas has been owned and on which taxes have been paid for forty years springs of living oil should be found at this late day but oil was discovered and it came up out of the ground the water coming from the same spring was tinted and coated with oil and the scum was most easily collected at another point oil would bubble up through the marshy soil so it was evident that oil must exist in great quantity in the near vicinity many there were who took the matter seriously and people flocked to the new find by the hundreds including in the number being men prominent in the business and mining world claims were located by individuals anxious to emulate john D the daily papers gave space to columns descriptive crip tive of the wonderful discovery and learned professors were interviewed and quoted to show that recent earth tremors had given birth to a new industry for salt lake and vicinity for a few days all was joy and hilarity reigned supreme but the bright sunshine was dissipated and dreams of sudden wealth suddenly clouded when it was finally demonstrated that the oil was a seepage from the tanks of an oil refinery nearby and that the bubbling spring came from a soaked in petroleum which some joker had secretly planted near the scene of the great discovery no one at the present time is willing to be quoted about the existence of oil in north salt lake and the event can now be referred to as a comedy in bubbles |